For those of you who stay up late, here is a treat. Part Four of Josh’s Slate series on the Idiots has been posted early. It’s short and sweet and to the point—the perfect thing to digest before you go to bed.
A few weeks back, Josh asked Robbi and me to come up with a way to visually represent our creative process. We each sat down with pieces of paper and started to sketch. Five minutes later I was done with mine. I looked across the room and saw that Robbi was still going. So I drew another one—a better one, I thought. This one had more detail and a few jokes and took me about ten minutes. I looked up. Robbi was still deep in her work. So I started to write a narrative description of our process. About an hour later, she finally emerged and showed me her document. It crossed four pieces of paper, which were taped together haphazardly. It was sprawling and nuanced and convoluted and funny. It was the perfect representation of how we do what we do. I crumpled up my pieces of paper and threw them in the recycling bin. And then we sat down together to refine Robbi’s document.
Part four features the end product of this exercise, a little something we like to call the “Do-Not-Try-This-At-Home, Fail-Proof and Foolhardy Roadmap for How to Make an Illustrated Book With Your Lawful-Wedded Partner Creative Process Diagram.”
The Extravaganza, as we have been calling it, was beautifully animated by our friends at Malloc Media, the same outfit of brilliant coders who created the Flash version of the Makers Tile Game and our Ten Thousand Stories Flash feature.
If you are too exhausted to click this link and peruse the Extravaganza up close, here’s a glimpse of what you’re missing.
Fear not. It will still be waiting for you tomorrow, which is, after all, another day.
